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Do you remember a few years ago when two bodies were discovered in Antarctica? The bodies were men who had died there on an expedition in the early years of the twentieth century, but their corpses were preserved as if they had died mere hours before being discovered. It was a feast for the scientific community. One of the things that the forensic scientists discovered after testing the corpses of these men was that both of them suffered from lead poisoning. Virtually all of the food brought along on the expedition was stored in lead cans, as was the norm at that time. The scientists theorized that both men, and possibly most of the expedition were insane at the time of their death because of the lead poison.

I dont know what made me think of that. Maybe it was George Bushs speech the other day where he condemned Russia for invading Georgia. No one seemed to be bothered by the incongruity of a President with an invading army in Iraq lecturing another country about an invasion. Everyone just seemed to nod in silent agreement. Not that there is any shortage of examples of mass insanity. Maybe a hundred years from now, scientists will discover that the people of the early decades of the twenty-first century were all victims of

"artificial coloring insanity"

"normal behavior."

By Myron Gushlak